{"id":50158,"date":"2014-11-13T11:32:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T11:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=31fe9b296e1313173fda7d4528e5d8b1"},"modified":"2014-11-13T11:32:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T11:32:02","slug":"news-story-catapulting-innovations-to-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=50158","title":{"rendered":"News story: Catapulting innovations to market"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you\u2019re a UK digital entrepreneur you can now enjoy support, expertise and the use of new facilities to help take your great ideas to market.<\/p>\n

The recently opened Digital Catapult Centre is a state-of-the art hub for innovative digital technologists, creatives, businesses and academia to showcase their products, connect and collaborate. It will also allow SMEs to innovate at speed and with less risk.<\/p>\n

Opening the new facilities, Minister for the Digital Economy Ed Vaizey also announced 3 more digital partnerships \u2013 in Sunderland, Brighton and Bradford. They will support the London centre in creating thousands of new jobs and helping to increase innovation locally. <\/p>\n

Mr Vaizey said:<\/p>\n

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It is an exciting time to be a tech business in the UK. Our digital economy is already one of the strongest markets in the world, valued at more than \u00a3100 billion.<\/p>\n

Growth areas including the Internet of Things and digital creative industries are opening up a range of new opportunities for companies in the sector.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Existing tech clusters and innovators can now exhibit their great ideas on a national stage. Have a look at The Data Sphere<\/a> and Showcase exhibits<\/a> to find out what the Digital Catapult Centre will be doing.<\/p>\n

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Crowd Emotion demoing its body language recognition product. Photo: Paul Clarke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Catapult network \u2013 and how it can help your business<\/h2>\n

The Catapults<\/a> are a network of world-leading centres designed to transform the UK\u2019s capability for innovation in 7 specific areas and help increase economic growth. The centres complement existing research and development programmes established by Innovate UK.<\/p>\n

How can the Catapults help your business? Watch the video<\/a><\/p>\n

The Catapults<\/a> are physical centres where the very best of the UK\u2019s businesses, scientists and engineers can work together on late-stage research and development. They are centres to transform high potential ideas into new products and services which will help generate economic growth.<\/p>\n

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Working with the Catapults \u2013 find out more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Digital Catapult is passionate about innovation \u2013 find out what it\u2019ll be up to in its launch season<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Read: Technology entrepreneur Dr Hermann Hauser\u2019s review of the future shape, scope and ambition of the Catapult network<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Digital Economy Minister Ed Vaizey opens the Digital Catapult Centre and announces 3 more partnerships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}